bmcleod

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Rules-as-Code: The Next Step for Policy Development in a Digital World(medium.com)
3 points by bmcleod 7y ago|0 comments
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by bmcleod 13y ago
We've been looking at the payments infrastructure in New Zealand recently and have discovered that, unless you find whoever wrote something 30 years ago, most of the senior payments people have limited and ofter contradictory understan
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by bmcleod 13y ago
In general international agreements don't override national law, they just oblige the countries in question to pass laws that bring them in line with the agreement. Which they commonly fail to do in all sorts of interesting ways. Part
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by bmcleod 13y ago
I suspect what's happening with all the people who this works for is that given there are some people who have a psychological component to their pain and some who have a mostly physical component. Even if there are far fewer suffering
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by bmcleod 14y ago
This is really the kind of thing where A/B testing is both necessary and straightforward. Decently intuitive arguments can be made for both sides and there isn't really overwhelming strength on either of them.
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by bmcleod 14y ago
This is the point where it's worth pointing out that the portion of the population involved in food production has collapsed massively over the last couple of centuries. People generally seem to find new things to value when their time free
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by bmcleod 14y ago
Philosophy of Science is an extremely broad field. And like any academic field it's easy enough to find crazy stuff at the edges. I do think far more scientists would benefit from a bit more of a look at some of the more established philoso
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Dealing with Wrist Pain(breccan.com)
74 points by bmcleod 14y ago|66 comments
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The Benefits of a Unique Company Culture(breccan.com)
2 points by bmcleod 14y ago|0 comments
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by bmcleod 14y ago
It's a reasonably sensible point being made when I expected the title to mean I was about to be subjected to yet another rant about editors. Improving the interactivity of wikipedia would be nice. Although I suspect it would make it harder
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Eve.js - A microframework for event delegation(evejs.com)
6 points by bmcleod 14y ago|2 comments
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by bmcleod 15y ago
Poor Economics - Changed my views on some areas of how to combat poverty and poor education. As well as relating a huge amount a detail regarding the unexpected ways people with different backgrounds behave.
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by bmcleod 15y ago
There is an interesting issue in the philosophy of science regarding the "hard center" of theories. Basically any prediction about a reasonably complicated situation will rely on a large number of premises. If you happen to be committed to
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by bmcleod 15y ago
It seems to me that people that don't read self-help books lump a lot more books into the genre and that causes them to miss a number of books they should read. Earlier this year I recommended Bargaining for Advantage to someone and they re
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by bmcleod 15y ago
Unless the thing I "should" be doing is immediately necessary or massively more important than the secondary thing I end up doing I'm generally pretty happy to follow my motivation around. I normally seem to get back to the important thing
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by bmcleod 15y ago
If you want to seriously consider this kind of cash back deal then you should look at the amount of money you're giving up as an exceptionally high risk investment. What kind of a return would you want the upside to be for you to walk out r
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by bmcleod 15y ago
A terrible deal, you're seeing a bunch of downsides and no upsides. Unless the work is absolutely fascinating to you then you shouldn't even be considering this. I'm impressed that someone had the balls to put an offer like this on the tabl
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by bmcleod 15y ago
Beef is a case where there are some very obvious things(texture, fattyness, chewyness etc) that make eye fillet a much more pleasant eating experience than other cuts of meat and there's a lot less of it per animal. If you can pull that off
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by bmcleod 15y ago
I've been adding a state machine whenever I find myself adding a state column for a couple of years now. I have always found this streamlining at least one change in the couple of months after initial implementation.
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by bmcleod 15y ago
The level of security knowledge required to do decent penetration testing is a relatively rare skill and therefore often necessitates bringing in a third party which can skew the cost/benefit quite badly. You're often much better off saying
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A Site Launch Checklist (breccan.com)
81 points by bmcleod 15y ago|18 comments
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by bmcleod 15y ago
One of the things people talking about reputation seem to miss is how easy it is to establish that base level of reputation. A couple of decent talks at local user groups will be enough in most tech areas that have job openings for employer
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by bmcleod 15y ago
Unfortunately it's likely the spammers are simply going with whichever bank is easiest to work through. Any changes will just cause them to move to the next easiest option.
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Reading The Four Steps to the Epiphany(breccan.com)
1 points by bmcleod 15y ago|0 comments
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by bmcleod 15y ago
The problem with "teh womenz" is that up until that point I was thinking of adding that list to a set of programming resources I'm sending to a friend of mine who's been learning programming recently. And sure, she'll have to deal with that
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by bmcleod 15y ago
This works very well for anything where people can objectively judge how good you are. For anything more arbitrary you're going to need to toot your own horn a little. Of course, you still have to avoid doing it too much.
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by bmcleod 15y ago
If you do your research you should know that range already. In which case open with 80-100 or more depending on the company and the arguments you can make to back up your value. If you do this then you've fixed the entire discussion at the
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by bmcleod 15y ago
Learning particular techniques is a fun part of negotiating, but it's actually not a particularly important part of it. In the long run you'll be better off if you use these a little bit (any more and your start pissing people off), but the
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by bmcleod 15y ago
That depends on how you're going about taking your papers. For instance, I took a little over double the maximum course load my second year at uni. As part of that I ended up failing a paper that turned out to have some more time intensive
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by bmcleod 15y ago
tl;dr getTime in windows only updates every 15 ms, so if your performance benchmark cares about that kind of period then it isn't going to give very good results. Every time I hear about performance testing in JS it seems to be that it does

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